Teacher Certification Appeals Council elects co‑chair, resolves dozens of appeals

The Teacher Certification Appeals Council on April 24, 2025, elected Mister Milosa as co‑chair and resolved dozens of individual certification appeals, approving most requests and denying several, while deferring one case to a later meeting.

The council’s action affects a list of appellants identified in the hearing record. The council also recessed into an executive session to discuss the character, professional competence or health of a person; the council’s presiding officer said no votes would be taken while in executive session and that any final votes would occur after it returned to public session.

Mister Milosa, a council member, was nominated and approved by voice vote to serve as co‑chair. The council approved the minutes of the Nov. 7, 2024 meeting before proceeding to the contested certification cases.

The council opened and resolved a sequence of appeals listed in the agenda as cases A through MM. For each case the council took a formal motion and recorded the outcome in public session. The outcomes included approvals “as requested,” denials, one case granted a final extension, and one case deferred for further information. In one instance (case K, Tanya Lovell) Doctor Kiper recorded an abstention; a separate abstention was recorded during consideration of case O (Cullen Bovio). The council denied the request in case R (Latonya Givens).

The council moved into a closed executive session to review…